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Midnight Commander Development Revived

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the always-nice-to-see-popular-packages-resurrected dept.

richlv writes "Popular Unix console file manager Midnight Commander has experienced a stall for the last few years. Most distributions (including the conservative Slackware) shipped patched packages or snapshots. Despite that, everybody had a favorite bug or two — either inability to specify ssh connection port, or problems with interrupted FTP sessions. Or maybe copying of larger datasets. Or maybe the infamous 'shell is still active' message, which often brought unexpected changes of current directory with it. Whatever it was, we either cursed it every time, or learned to live with it. It seems that finally something many were waiting for has happened — there's some activity on mc development. Check out the new homepage, and let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy."

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  1. Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, and let's welcome them back by taking down their webserver.

    Nice job.

    Seriously, three comments and the server's already 500ing?!? I had to get Winnertz Patrick's phone number from the whois information and call him to ask about the new MC.

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    It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
  2. great for patch work by nevets · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I love mc!

    I use it all the time for patch management. One little tidbit that most people do not know about mc is that you can cd into a patch. Edit the diffs in the patch, and copy a diff from one patch to another patch file, just like copying or moving a file.

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    Steven Rostedt
    -- Nevermind
  3. Re:Mirror by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

    My god, it's full of code!

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    It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
  4. Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

    So Lame and Predictable walk into this bar...

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    It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
  5. Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Okay.. thanks for taking down my/our webserver.. however most of the people will be interested in the sourcecode (at least I hope so).

    For those which only want to have the code, please have a look on this git mirror:

      http://repo.or.cz/w/midnight-commander.git

    as I've currently took down the webserver because it makes no sense to let him running this way. I'll search for a solution as fast as possible.

    Greetings
    Patrick Winnertz
    on behalf of the MC Development Team